Not according to Francis Turretin
The Mission: Reaching and Teaching
Idea: Let's Try Every Way But Christ's Way? (or maybe not)
re-post from 29 August 2007 on the old HB. — Thanks to a link by Justin Taylor I read an article by Nancy Morganthaler this morning that is disturbing on so many levels I hardly know where to begin.
WSC Grad Opens Reformed Study Center in Manila
Details here.
San Diego to San Salvador to Lima
No, it’s not a double-play combo, but the itinerary of WSC student David (Nigel) Alenskis as he heads to his summer internship.
Church Growth is Dead
So says Pastor Marty Fields of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Laurel, MS.
Las Vegas URC worship services beginning June 1
If you live in the Las Vegas area, please come join the LV URC church plant for Sunday afternoon worship services beginning June 1 on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).
The Killer B's: Idols of the Minister's Heart
New on the Faculty Reflections page at WSC
Black and Reformed: A Review (pt 2)
Here is part 1 of this review. A Preface and A Challenge Before I make some criticisms of this book I want to repeat that it is an important book that needs to be read. It especially needs to be read by . . . Continue reading →
Centre for Public Christianity
What do you make of this? (HT: Jodie Morris)
Wollebius on the Free Offer of the Gospel
Donald John MacLean publishes the James Durham Thesis where he has been surveying the arguments for the free or well-meant offer of the gospel. The latest post is on one of my favorites, Johannes Wollebius.
Ministry Monday: Where to Serve?
Seminary student Simon writes to ask about how to choose where to serve upon graduation.
Missional Monday: Easter, the High Holy Day in the Church-Growth Calendar
It didn’t happen for us this year, but it did for Danny Hyde. In the introduction to his sermon yesterday morning pastor mentioned that he again received a barrage of invitations from local evangelical congregations to their Easter extravaganzas.
What Makes a Church Missional?
It depends upon who is doing the defining. Todd Billings has a helpful essay on this very question that echoes some of the same themes I tried to raise during our Missional and Reformed conference.
Missional Monday: Who Has the Keys?
There were a lot of questions we didn’t have time to answer at the Missional and Reformed conference. I don’t know if I am able to answer them all but here’s another: “Does the individual Christian witness in the world participate in . . . Continue reading →
New Audio: Practical Advice for Reaching the Lost
…without Losing the Reached. From yesterday’s URC student lunch on campus at Westminster Seminary California. Thanks to Pastor Stephen Donovan at Escondido URC for recording the session.
More Missional Monday: Getting to Know the Tiv
From RBA, a study of the Tiv, a tribe of about 4 million in (mostly) central Nigeria. This study is interesting because we have had a number of Tiv students from the NKST (Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv). . . . Continue reading →
Missional Monday: Should Evangelism Happen Only in the Church?
As I argued at the WSC faculty conference “Missional and Reformed” the Reformed Churches have a sense of “mission.” We haven’t always been faithful to it and the Reformed understanding of the church’s mission is not that of the “missional” movement, especially . . . Continue reading →
URC Bible Study in Las Vegas
Kevin has the details here. It’s a growing city and there are a lot of folk to reach with the law and the gospel. Pray for God’s blessing on this work.
Mondays Are For Mission
Okay, I know the “Day of the Week is for…” thing is getting tired but so am I and I couldn’t think of anything more clever. *** I’m working through some of the questions that were submitted to the WSC Missional AND . . . Continue reading →
The Method Must Serve the Message
So said Jim Packer back in the 70s. Thabiti has some more of the good stuff.